Merle Haggard - Daddy Frank guitar tab

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Date: 9/18/96; 12:04:03 AM

From: Darragh Egan

Subject: Daddy Frank(crd) by Merle Haggard

MERLE HAGGARD -- DADDY FRANK (THE GUITAR MAN)

Written by Merle Haggard - Tree Pub. Co. Inc. / CBS Music Group (BMI), 1971?

Transcribed from: Merle Haggard, "Collectors Series" - Capitol Records, 1990.

Original single released in 1971.

SPOKEN INTRO [no music]: Let me tell you about a song that I feel explains

itself. It's called: "Daddy Frank, the Guitar Man."

INTRO: | D | A | D[stop] | [NC]

CHORUS: |D | | |

Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,

| | |A |

Sister played the ringing tambourine.

| | | |

Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,

| | |D |

She read our lips and helped the family sing.

That [D]little band was all a part of living,

And our only means of living at the [A]time;

And it wasn't like no normal family combo,

Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was [D]blind.

|G | |D |

Frank and mama counted on each other;

|G | |Bm |

Their one and only weakness made them strong.

|G | |D |

Mama did the driving for the family,

|Bm | |A |

And Frank made a living with a song.

|G | |D |

Home was just a camp along the highway;

|G | |Bm |

A pick-up bed was where we bedded down.

|G | |D |

Don't ever once remember going hungry,

|D G |D A |D |D [